[187]. Ibid, v., p. 650.
[188]. In the Dispatch to the Earl of Liverpool, dated Fuente Guinaldo, 10th June, 1812, the Earl of Wellington states, “I have likewise sent from this country to Gibraltar Lieutenant-Colonel Jones and four subaltern officers of engineers, and two companies of military artificers, including all the sappers there are with the army,” to join the corps d’armée under Lieutenant-General Lord William Bentinck, “to make an attack on the eastern coast of the Peninsula, with the troops from Sicily.”—Wellington Dispatches; 1845, v., p. 706, 707. The above company, 92 strong, was the only one despatched from Portugal, but one of the Maltese military artificers from Messina was added to the engineers' means for the siege, which made a combined sapper-force of 134 strong.
[189]. ‘Wellington Dispatches,’ 1845, v., p. 724.
[190]. Jones’s ‘Sieges,’ notes by Colonel Harry D. Jones, i., p. 135, 377, 3rd edit.
[191]. ‘United Service Journal,’ 2, 1829, p. 284, 285.
[192]. In 1816 this officer was appointed Town-Major at Bermuda, and from the able manner in which he discharged its duties, was honoured with the confidence and approval of his patron, Sir James Cockburn.
[193]. ‘United Service Journal,’ iii., 1844, p. 77, 78.
[194]. Sir W. Napier, in his ‘Peninsular War,’ attributes, by mistake, this service to Lieutenant G. Pringle, R.E.
[195]. Manuscript, Royal Engineer Establishment. The model in the Model Room at Brompton, showing the details of one of the stockades, was made under the direction of Sub-Lieutenant Calder.
[196]. Sir Thomas Graham, in ‘Wellington Dispatches,’ vi., p. 650, edit. 1845. Jones’s ‘Sieges,’ ii., p. 391, 2nd edit.; and Pasley’s ‘Elementary Fortification,’ note D, p. ix., vol. 1.